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1、一、单选1. Finding a job in China that Tom is is difficult, for he knows little Chinese at all.A. related toB. accustomed to C. devoted toD. suited to答案是D 解析：句意“想要在中国找到一份适合汤姆的工作很难，因为他几乎不会汉语”。be related to 和 有关 be accustomed to 习惯于 一 be suited to 适合2. The experienced goalkeeper moved to block the ball, b

2、ut unfortunately, the youngplayer kicked the ball into the goal.A. steadilyB. smartlyC. seriouslyD. gently答案 B 句意：这个有经验的守门员很灵活地移动身体想要把球扑出去，但是不幸的是，那个年轻的 球员还是把球踢进了球门。从experienced就可以看出应该用smartly这个单词来修饰.3. Feeling exhausted after three hours' study, I myself with a glass of iced drink.A. switchedB.

3、stretchedC. releasedD. refreshed答案 D 考查词汇。句意：三个小时的学习后，我感觉疲惫。所以喝了一杯冰饮料振作了 一下。Refreshed adj,表示容光焕发，精神振奋。4. Young people are the most eager to learn and the least in their thinking.A. sensitiveB. arbitraryC. conservativeD. conscious答案 C句意：年轻人是最可渴望学习且思想一点也不保守的人。sensitive adj 敏感的；arbitrary adj 武断的； consc

4、ious adj有意识的，清醒的5. the growing Syrian refugee crisis, the two organizations have teamed up with a new campaign to provide quality education for children displaced by the conflict.A. In addition toB. In response to C. In need ofD. In search of答案 B句意：两个组织已经联合起来发起一个新的运动来给流离失所的儿童提供高质量 的教育以应对不断增长的叙利亚难民危机

5、。In response to 对做出回应6. his health, we decided to put off the trip to England and waited until he recovers.A. Making sure ofB. Making way forC. Making allowance forD. Making up for答案 C 句意：考虑到他的健康，我们决定推迟英国之旅等他康复。 make allowance(s) for :考虑至L 顾及，体谅 make way for: 让路于； 让位于 make up for: 弥补7. They set up t

6、he non-profit organization in the 1990s, one of purposes is to help promisingstudents who cannot afford a university education.A. whichB. whereC. whoseD. whom答案 C考查定于从句。句意：他们在90年代建立这家非盈利组织，其目的之一就是帮助那些无法负担大学学费的 有前途的学生。定语从句中的 "purposes 和先行词 "the non-profit organization 是所有格的关系。8. It was not

7、until I came here I realized this place was famous for not only its beauty but also its weather.A. whoB. thatC. whereD. before答案是B 解析：句意：直到我来到这里我才意识到这个地方不仅因为它的美丽而闻名，还因为它的天气。 Not until常考两种用法。一是 not until在句首的时候，主句中部分倒装；二是 it is/was not untilthat弓虽调句型。9. -Could you tell me how to work out the maths pro

8、blem?- Sorry, I can ' t. You can turn to David for help. He' s clever and the problem is to hiiA. as easy as pie B. as sly as a fox C. as white as a sheet D. as cool as cucumber 答案是A解析：as easy as pie 小菜一碟 as sly as a fox 十分狡猾as white as a sheet 苍白as cool as cucumber 非常冷静10. -John has resigne

9、d from his post to seek his fortune in Shanghai. ? He got promoted last month.A. How comeB. Who caresC. Why notD. What ' s on答案 A 考察交际用语。How come? 为什么；怎么会（那样）主要表示吃惊、承认、 认可，如果对方提的问题过于简单，回答时可以用来表示轻微的惊异，有时用来表示不耐烦、抗议或异议。 Who cares?谁在乎（表示没人在乎） 二、阅读理解请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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15、er budget, Wix has more options than just the free website design. You canchoose to upgrade(升级)to the ad-less version which won't fill up your customer's screens whenthey visit your site. But if the most important thing to you is getting your companys naright now, try Wix. com today.1. What

16、is Paragraph 2 mainly about?A. Ways of finding free service.C. Skills of creating websites.2. What ' s the purpose of the text?A. To teach a budget lesson.C. To present a website design.A篇【文章大意】本文是篇广告 ，讲述 站。1. B 段落主旨题。文中第二段提到了 而节省了公司需要支付给设计者的费用 司的信息。因此该段讲述 Wix. comB. Advantages of Wix. com.D. Tr

17、icks of running a company.B. To make an advertisement.D. To introduce a new business.Wix. com网站的优势，并希望更多的公司使用该网Wix. com可以免费提供 HTML5以及Flash网站，从 ,接下来又讲Wix. com如何帮助制作者展现自己公 的优势所在。2. B 写作意图题。本文主要介绍Wix. com网站的优势，并希望更多的公司使用该网站，故在为 Wix. com 做宣传。BErnest Hemingway was not only a commanding figure in 20th-cen

18、tury literature, but was also a pack rat. He saved even his old passports and used bullfight tickets, leaving behind one of the longest paper trails of any author.“Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars ” , which opens on Friday at the Morgan Library & Museum, is the first major museum exhibition de

19、voted to Hemingway and his work. The largest and most interesting section focuses on the' 20s, Hemingway ' s Paris years, and reveals a writer wemight have been in danger of forgetting: Hemingway before he became Hemingway.The exhibition does not fail to include pictures of the bearded, manl

20、y, Hem. He' shown posing with some kudu he has just shot in Africa and on the bridge of his beloved fishing boat, the Pilar, with Carlos Gutie rrez, the fisherman who became the mode ford Man and the Sea.But the first photo the viewer sees is a big blowup of a handsome, clean-shaven, 19-year-old

21、 standing on crutches. This is from the summer of 1918, when Hemingway was recovering from wounds at the Red Cross hospital in Milan and trying to turn his wartime experiences into fiction.The evidence at this exhibition suggests that, in the early days, he often wrote in pencil, mostly in cheap not

22、ebooks but sometimes on whatever paper came to hand. The first draft of the short story Soldier's Home was written on sheets he appeared to have snatched from a telegraph office. The impression you get is of a young writer seized by inspiration and sometimes barreling ahead without an entirely c

23、lear sense of where he is going.F. Scott Fitzgerald (some of whose letters with Hemingway is also on view) famously urged him to cut the first two chapters of The Sun Also Rises, complaining about the “ elephantine facetiousness " of the beginning, and Hemingway obliged, getting rid of a clunky

24、 opening that nowseems almostmeta.In 1929, in a nine-page penciled critique, Fitzgerald also suggested numerousrevisions for A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway took some of these, but less graciously, and soon afterward his friendship with Fitzgerald came to an end.The papers at the Morgan show a Hemingw

25、ay who is not always sure of himself. There are running lists of stories he kept fiddling with, and there are lists and lists of possible titles, including the 45 he considered for Farewell and 47 different endings for the novel.In display case after display case, you see Hemingway during his Paris

26、years inventing and reinventing himself, discovering as he goes along just what kind of writer he wants to be. In a moving 1925 letter to his parents, who refused to read In Our Time, his second story collection, he writes:"You see I ' m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the ac

27、tual life acrossdescribe life or criticize it but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can' t do this without putting in the bad and the uglyas well as what is beautiful.”By the time the Second World War broke out, Hemingway

28、 had solidified into the iconic figure we now remember: Papa. Even J. D. Salinger calls him this. And a blustery, cranky Hemingway appears in 1949 when aboard the Pilar he grabs an old fishing diary and begins scrawling an angry letter to Harold Ross, the editor of The New Yorker, complaining about

29、Alfred Kazin' s review ofAcross the River and into the Trees, not, in truth, a very good book. But, Hemingway, often drinking and depressed, didn ' t know it, his best work was behind him by then.3. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined words“a pack rat " in thA

30、. A person who doesn ' t waste anything. B. A person who cannot be relied on.C. A person who likes to collect rubbish.D. A person who enjoys collecting things.4. How many of Hemingway ' s works are mentioned in this passage?A. 4.B. 5.C. 6.D. 7.5. What does the writer truly mean by saying“ He

31、mingway before he became Hemingway. " ?A. Hemingway wrote many masterpieces before he killed himself.B. Hemingway was once a war correspondent before he became a famous writer.C. Hemingway devoted all his strengths to writing before he won the Nobel Prize.D. Hemingway kept exploring the world a

32、nd adjusting himself before he became a commanding figure in literature.6. According to the Morgan show, readers are likely to see in Hemingway' s works.tough men who can ' t be defeated anti-war fighters the dark side of the world as well as its beauty love affairs between a man and a woman

33、 the story of a family businessA.B.C.D.B篇【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了美国著名作家、诺贝尔文学奖获得者海明威的生平，介绍了他的主要作品与突出的生活经历。6 .【解析】选D。词义猜测题。根据画线词的下一句可知海明威喜欢收集东西，故选D。a packrat意为 喜欢囤积东西的人”。7 .【解析】选C。细节理解题。第三段提到了 TheOld Man and the Sea,第四段提到了 Soldier's Home,第五段提到了 The Sun Also Rises 和 A Farewell to Arms,第七段提到了的 In Our Tim

34、e, 最后一段提到了的 Across the River and into theTreeso很显然，总共提到了六部作品。8 .【解析】选 D。句意理解题。根据画线句前的"reveals a writer we might have been in dangerof forgetting （揭示了一位我们可能会忘记的作家）'可知，作者指的是成为20世纪文坛中一位举足轻重的人物之前的海明威，一位曾到过世界许多地方，写作方式、文风、性格和形象不断发生改变的海明威。9 .【解析】选 Ao细节理解题。根据第三段的内容和倒数第二段最后一句可知。三、任务型阅读请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所

35、读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。四、书面表达Human capital（资金）flight, more commonly referred to as“ brain drain sCathe largeemigration（移民）of a large group of individuals with technical skills or knowledge. Although the term originally referred to technology workers leaving a natio

36、n, the meaning has broadened into the departure of educated and professional people from one country, economic sector, or field for another, usually for better pay or living conditions.Brain drain is usually regarded as an economic cost, since emigrants usually take with them the part of value of th

37、eir training sponsored by the government or other organizations. The contrary phenomenon is “brain gain ” , which occurs when there is- aBcaileemmigration of technically qualified persons.to North America waimEpursIpe. Another source indicatesThe term itself was coined by the Royal Society（ 英国皇家学会 ）

38、to describe the emigration of “scientists and technologiststhat this term was first used in the United Kingdom to describe the influx（ 流入）of Indian scientist and engineers.The reasons usually include two aspects which respectively（ 分另1J地）come from countries and individuals. In terms of countries, th

39、e reasons may be social environment such as lack of opportunities, political instability, economic depression, health risks, etc. in source countries and rich chances, political stability and freedom, developed economy, better living conditions, etc. in host countries. In terms of individual reasons

40、, there is family influence（overseas relatives ）, and personal preference: preference for exploring, ambition for an improved career, etc.Brain drain is common amongst developing nations, where marketable skills were not financially rewarded.With rapid GDP growth and a higher degree of openness towa

41、rds the rest of the world , China has also been facing brain drain. There has been upsurge in Chinese emigration to Western countries particularly the United States , Canada and Australia since the mkfirst decade of the 21st century. China became the biggest worldwide contributor of emigrants in 200

42、7. According to the official Chinese media, 65,000 Chinese secured immigration or permanent resident status( 地位) in the United States, 25,000 in Canada and 15,000 in Australia. The largest group of emigrants consists of professionals and experts with a middle class background, who are the backbone(骨

43、 干)for the development of China.However, in recent years, China's rapid development and the increasing number of international companies registering to do business in China have led many Chinese living abroad to swap their lives there for a new life back in China. According to the government sta

44、tistics, more than 130 thousand people came back in 2010, and more in the following years. Better jobs, special government policies and more chances to make use of the experience and skills gained abroad have made the future look bright indeed for the overseas Chinese coming home.Brain Drain : A Spe

45、cial Phenomenon Across the WorldPassage outlineSupporting detailsO Originally referring to large scale emigration of (2) andknowledgeable individuals for better pay or living conditions Broadened into the departure of professional people who received good (3)from one country, economic sector, or fie

46、ld for another Regarded as an economic cost(4)of theterm First used in the UK, one (5) the emigration of “scientistsandtechnologists to North America from post war (6) countries;another the influx of Indian scientist and engineersReasons From countries: social environment in the countries which (7)f

47、rom“brain drain OFfrom individuals: family influence and personal preferenceBrain drain in China There has been an increase in Chinese emigration to Western countries since 2005 China(8)the most to brain drain worldwide in 2007 , with 65 , 000to the United States, 25, 000 to Canada and 15, 000 to Au

48、stralia, (9)of whom were professionals and experts with a middle class background However, recently more and more Chinese overseas are (10)homethanks to the better jobs , special government policies and more chances to make use of the experience and skills gained abroad in their home country1. Defin

49、ition 2. skilled 3. Education 4. Origin/Sources 5. describing6. European 7. suffer 8. contributed 9. most 10. returning/coming/back请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。Yuan Longping, 90, known as the“ father of h ytplidyisice crucial rote in helping Chinaachieve food security. Every morning what he does first is go to the field and works as a "farmer". When asked how much his shirt was, he told the reporter that it was 35 yuan.Li Junxian, without whom it would have been impossible for us to send the rocket into spac